The Supreme Court of Georgia on Monday unanimously granted a stay of execution for death row inmate Warren Lee Hill 90 minutes before he was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection . The court granted the stay to consider an appeal by Hill, 52, regarding the recent change by the Georgia Department of Corrections [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Monday that the government is not required to release documents that are designated as secret, even though they have allegedly been made available to the public already. The case involves a request by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for the government [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating a law in Pennsylvania that requires voters to present photo identification before voting, according to a letter released on Monday. The letter, which was sent in March, requests that Pennsylvania send the DOJ available data relating to the law, including the number of registered voters who do [...]
A German court on Tuesday ruled in favor of Samsung Electronics by upholding a lower court decision that rejected the request by Apple to ban the sale of South Korean company’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 N. The Oberlandesgericht Duesseldorf held that Samsung is allowed to sell the revised version of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 while the [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Monday expressed his concern that Syria could potentially use chemical weapons in its ongoing conflict. Ban expressed his hopes that the international community would keep a close eye on the situation , even though the Syrian government has stated it would not use such weapons of mass destruction against its [...]
Amnesty International (AI) on Monday urged the government of Bahrain to release all prisoners of conscience immediately in the wake of an appeal by human rights activist Nabeel Rajab challenging his three-month sentence for comments he posted on his Twitter page in June. Rajab, the president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) was [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Terrica Ganzy, Staff Attorney for the Southern Center for Human Rights, argues Warren Hill was improperly sentenced to death and that Georgia should adopt a “preponderance of evidence” standard for mentally disabled claims in capital offense cases…
The recent wave of violence in Iraq was condemned Monday by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) . UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Political Affairs Gyoray Busztin denounced the wave of attacks that began over the weekend, reportedly a coordinated string of bombings and shootings in 13 cities, including Baghdad, [...]
A Ukraine judge on Monday again postponed the tax evasion trial of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko . Judge Kostyantyn Sadovsky for the court in the city of Kharkiv held that it would be impossible to proceed with the trial when Tymoshenko is absent. Tymoshenko is being treated at a state-run hospital for back problems [...]
The International Chamber of Commerce International Maritime Bureau (IMB) on Monday reported that the number of global pirate attacks fell sharply in the first half of 2012. The IMB Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) received reports of 177 incidents in the first six months of this year, compared to 266 incidents for the same period in [...]
